Olympic wrestling champion from Dagestan Magomed Ramazanov apologized to a participant in a women’s boxing tournament in Paris Iman Khelif for “your bad thoughts”.
In 2023, the International Boxing Association (IBA) suspended Khelif from the World Championships in India for failing to meet eligibility criteria. Following the gender test, it was proven that the athlete has XY chromosomes. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) admitted Khelif to women’s competitions in 2024. Her results at the Games sparked strong reactions in the media and society. The Algerian woman complained of harassment on social media, her father showed her birth certificate to prove that the athlete was born a girl. IOC President Thomas Bach will stop talking about boxers who fail the gender test.
— Transgender people should not be allowed to compete (in women’s competitions), they are men and women are women. As for this girl, I will say that I thought badly of her. Algeria is a Muslim country, I wondered how they could allow this. I want to formally apologize to her for my bad thoughts. This girl also had a difficult lifestyle, what she did there is her own business, what sins she committed, she will answer for them herself, “the correspondent reports, reporting Ramazanov’s words.
Khelif reached the final of the boxing tournament, where she will fight for gold at the 2024 Olympics with China’s Yang Liu. The fight will take place on Friday, the fight starts at 23:51 Moscow time.
Ramazanov represented Bulgaria at the Paris Olympics. In the final of the weight category up to 86 kg, he defeated Iranian Hassan Yazdanisharati.
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